Peter Milonni is a Professor of Physics (Research) at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, USA. He is a theoretical physicist who has studied quantum optics, laser physics, quantum electrodynamics and the Casimir effect. He earned his PhD in 1974 at the University of Rochester. He then worked at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory from 1974 to 1977, then working at Perkin Elmer Company from 1977 to 1980. In 1980, he became Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas; From 1986 to 1994 he was at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he became a fellow of the laboratory from 1994 onwards. He then had a research professorship at the University of Rochester.
Prof. Milonni is on the editorial boards of Progress in Optics, Contemporary Physics, Advances in Optics & Photonics and Physical Review Letters. He is also the author of several textbooks and monographs including The Quantum Vacuum: An Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics. Prof. Milonni received the Max Born Award "For exceptional contributions to the fields of theoretical optics, laser physics and quantum mechanics, and for dissemination of scientific knowledge through authorship of a series of outstanding books" in 2008.